January 26, 2026
(SF Gate) – Nearly six years later, a generation of first-year college students is still feeling the fallout, shaped by years of online high school, isolation and disrupted learning during some of their most formative years. Even as college life … Read More
January 23, 2026
(New York Times) – A crackdown on problems with fairness and safety is achieving results, including a big drop in the number of sick patients being passed over for transplants. For years, the nonprofit groups that coordinate transplants in the … Read More
January 23, 2026
(RAND) – This is the first report from the 2025 RAND Psychedelics Survey, which was fielded in September 2025 to a probability-based, nationally representative sample[1] of 10,122 adults ages 18 years and older living in the United States at that … Read More
January 23, 2026
(BBC) – The US has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving the UN agency without one of its biggest donors. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order signalling the withdrawal a year ago, having criticised the … Read More
January 23, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – From a 5,500-year-old human shin bone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, providing the oldest evidence yet that the disease has ancient roots in the Americas, millennia before European … Read More
January 23, 2026
(Nature) – After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next. We are increasingly being encouraged to integrate generative AI into research and teaching. Individuals … Read More
January 23, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – OpenAI’s newest product is no replacement for a doctor. But it might be better than searching the web for your symptoms. Though ChatGPT Health lives in a separate sidebar tab from the rest of ChatGPT, it … Read More
January 23, 2026
(Plough) – Our son Yusang has Down syndrome. He saved another child’s life. My wife and I had just learned that a couple from our church were wrestling with grief and confusion, so that cold Sunday evening, I set out … Read More
January 23, 2026
(Wired) – The trial starts soon in New Mexico’s case against Meta—and the company is pulling out all the stops to protect its reputation. Meta has emphasized in pretrial motions that the only questions the jury should be asked are … Read More
January 23, 2026
(New York Times) – We definitely have an attention problem, but it’s not just a function of the digital technology that pings and beeps and flashes and nudges us ever closer to despair. It starts with the way we think … Read More
January 22, 2026
(New York Times) – People, and men in particular, have long mixed solid science and serious quackery in the pursuit of longevity. Whatever the maximum human life span may be, people appear increasingly determined to find it — in particular … Read More
January 22, 2026
(Wired) – A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care. When immigration agents enter hospitals, and … Read More
January 22, 2026
(New York Times) – He Jiankui spent three years in prison after creating gene-edited babies. Now back at work, he sees a greater opening for researchers who push boundaries. For creating the world’s first genetically edited babies, He Jiankui has … Read More
January 22, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – Epic’s disclosures offer a rare glimpse into the unseen workings of how your personal medical records move from one network to another, who has access to them, and where there may be gaps that allow … Read More
January 22, 2026
(Wired) – Explosive acceleration, limited dexterity, eyes in the back of its head. What could possibly go wrong? Perhaps no humanoid maker has a bigger lead than a Hangzhou-based company called Unitree. While Elon Musk’s Optimus staggers through its demos, … Read More
January 22, 2026
(Axios) – This chart shows what it looks like to hit a 30-year high in measles cases — and why the U.S. is on track to lose its measles “elimination status.” Why it matters: We’ve all heard that cases are … Read More
January 22, 2026
(New York Times) – More than 300 Times Opinion readers responded to a January invitation to share their experience of rising health care costs. They included a cancer patient who shifted care mid-recovery to a new insurance plan that doesn’t … Read More
January 21, 2026
(ProPublica) – Each year, hundreds of thousands of women enter pregnancy with chronic conditions that put them at an elevated risk of long-term complications and, in some cases, death.For those who live in states that have banned abortion, their options … Read More
January 21, 2026
(ProPublica) – A ProPublica investigation found that Averhealth’s lab practices have not only been faulted by its own accreditor but also targeted in lawsuits, and prompted Michigan’s child welfare agency to order its employees not to use Averhealth’s tests as … Read More
January 21, 2026
(Hastings Center) – On the threshold of the fifth year of full-scale war, we find ourselves in a reality where human life is questioned every day. In a country where the enemy systematically devalues the very concept of dignity — … Read More
January 21, 2026
(Gizmodo) – There have been many high-profile stories in which chatbots have effectively encouraged and enabled people experiencing mental health crises to kill themselves, which has resulted in several wrongful death lawsuits against the companies responsible for the AI models … Read More
January 21, 2026
(Quartz) – OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to become America’s health advisor, and not everyone’s buying into it OpenAI says more than 230 million people already ask ChatGPT health questions every week. The new product adds guardrails — conversations won’t … Read More
January 20, 2026
(New York Times) – Leaders of the D.S.M., the world’s most influential psychiatric manual, have been split for more than five years over whether to recognize postpartum psychosis as a distinct disorder. The stakes in the postpartum decision are especially … Read More
January 20, 2026
(Straight Arrow News) – After the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ended the constitutional right to abortion, national abortion numbers were expected to plunge. Instead, they rose. At the center of this counterintuitive trend … Read More
January 20, 2026
(Straight Arrow News) – Four of the world’s leading heart health organizations warned Tuesday that environmental factors, including pollution, noise exposure and artificial light, are major drivers of cardiovascular disease, such as heart disease and stroke. In their first-ever joint … Read More
